appear that any mission school had
yet been organized.

The fourth station is at Settra Kroo, where there are five or six
miles of coast, to which the native title has not yet been
extinguished. This station has been maintained for some years, at a
lamentable expense of the lives and health of white missionaries.
About 200 boys and a few girls have been taught to read. The
station is now under the care of Mr. Washington McDonogh, formerly
a slave of the late John McDonogh, of Louisiana, so well known for
the immense estate which he has bequeathed to benevolent purposes.
He was well educated, and with more than eighty others, sent out
some years since at his master's expense. He has a school of
fifteen scholars, with the prospect of a large increase.

The mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church is located in the
Maryland Colony at Cape Palmas. Its last Report specifies seven
schools, and alludes to several others, in actual operation; all
containing from 200 to 300 scholars, of whom about 100 are in one
Sabbath school. Five other schools had been projected, and have
probably gone into operation since that time. The greater part of
the pupils are from native families. The Report states the number
of communicants at sixty-seven, of whom forty are natives. A High
school was opened January 1, 1850.

The laws of the Republic of Liberia provide for a common school in
every town. It is supposed, however, that where there is a mission
school, accessible to all children of suitable age, no other school
exists; so that, in fact, nearly all the common schools in Liberia
are connected with the different missions, the missionaries have
the superintendence of their studies, and the Missionary Societies
defray a large portion of the expense. Yet it must be remembered
that a large majority of the missionaries are citizens of the
Republic, and some of them native Africans; so that the immediate
control of the schools is not generally in foreign hands. A
portion, also, of the missionary funds, is contributed in Liberia;
and something is paid by parents for the tuition of their children.
Yet the Republic evidently needs an educational system more
independent of missionary aid and control; and for that purpose,
needs a supply of teachers who are not raised u